Meeting Minutes for May 5, 2007 BCS board meeting

 

Date:      May 5, 2007

Time:     9:30 AM

Place:     Piedmont Middle School

 

Attendance:

Principal

Y

Ben Li

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Vice Principals

Y

Johnson Kou

Y

YF Wong

 

 

 

 

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Liaison

Y

Oliver Wan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Secretary

Y

Chao-yi Lang

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Mandarin Instruction

Y

Wendy Hsieh

 

Shujen Liu

 

Berlin Wei

 

Julie Chou

Y

Albert Ko

Cantonese Instruction

 

Ken Chiu

 

Kernix Ly

 

Elean Ng

Y

Oliver Ma

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Cultural Instruction

Y

Hua-Ching Su

 

Olivia Deng

 

Linh Liao

Y

Hua-Ching Su

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Activity

Y

Willis Dair

Y

Pablo Chu

Y

Ken Ta

Y

Adam Au

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Finance

Y

Kim Kuan-Louie

 

Wendy Lee

 

Amy Sheen

Y

Richard Chan

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Human Resource

Y

Jimmy Lo

 

Tim Chung

 

 

 

 

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Registration

Y

Amy Shiue

Y

Maggie Chen

Y

Della Lui

Y

Farrah Pang

 

 

Campus Manger

 

Daniel Loy

 

Brenda Wong

Y

Chou Chi Chin

 

 

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Principal Emeritus

Y

LP Shen

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Advisors

Y

Albert Ko

Y

Simon Chu

 

 

 

 

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Others

Y

Julia Tat

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Board member attendance: 23/35

Non-member attendance:         1

1.      Call to order. Quorum established at 9:40 am

2.      Approval of last meeting minute

¡P         Approved unanimously

3.      Approval/Addition of Agenda Items.

¡P         Added culture department hiring discussion.

¡P         Added to form bylaw reviewing group.

¡P         Approved unanimously

4.      Unfinished  Business

4.1.      Board election (Chaoyi)

¡P         Board election today.  Please come to office to vote.

 

4.2.      Culture department hiring discussion (Hua-Ching)

¡P         Employee need to be 16 years old and above to be employed by BCS. For the helper under 16, we only can provide community service.

¡P         Teacher who is above 16 years old and under 18 years old also needs day school approval.

   

5.      New  Business

5.1.      Motion to form committee to review bylaw and recommend Oliver as the leader. (Liang-Ping)

¡P          (HuaChing) Recommend teacher to be the member of the group.

¡P         (Oliver) Recommend to form group. One core group with smaller member to review bylaw and another bigger group to provide comments.

¡P         (Oliver) Recommends LiangPing as co-chair.

¡P         (Albert) the committee member needs to be approved by board.

¡P         There is a motion to approve. 22 approved. Motion approved.

 

6.      Departmental Reports

6.1.      Principal (Ben)

¡P         Accident happened in Sierramont middle last week. Room parents applied medicine, but the student has allergy to that. Working on the guide line.

o        Only apply the first-aid kits

o        Inform the parents immediately.

o        Send the student to the office.

¡P         ANCCS meeting: Discussed about Confucius day (9/23). Recommend to hold ceremony in BYC. BCS will provide help.

6.2.      Administration (Johnson)

¡P         Please reply email on teacher banquet. RSVP deadline today for teachers.

¡P         New parent orientation next week. Send slides to curriculum department.

¡P         Kite contest 6/3. Sign up form in every campus office.

6.3.      HR (Jimmy)

¡P         Need to hire teacher. Please refer teachers to the BCS.

¡P         Preparing teacher award plate for teacher banquet.

¡P         (Ben) For each department, please send the long term helper list. BCS wants to invite them to teacher banquet.

6.4.      Culture (Hua-Ching)

¡P         Finished culture classes students¡¦ assignment.

¡P         Interview candidate with proposed new culture class. Plan to open the class for first two week. Will open the class if student is enough.  Waiting for teacher to confirm.

¡P         (Ben) Culture class open room next week.

6.5.      Registration (Amy)

¡P         Placement test this afternoon.

6.6.      Finance (Kim)

¡P         Please submit the expense report.

6.7.      Activity (Willis)

¡P         Preparing teacher banquet and graduation ceremony.

6.8.      Curriculum(YF)

¡P         Graduation ceremony 5/19. Send out to-do list.

¡P         Received SAT score today and will send to student.

6.9.      Mandarin (Wendy)

¡P         Need to hire 6 new teachers.

6.10.   Cantonese (Johnson)

¡P         Finished teacher evaluation.

¡P         Send out the outstanding teacher list.

6.11.   BYC  (Simon)

¡P         Please review the BYC usage guideline.

7.      Other Business:

7.1.       (Pablo) Morrill campus PA too long. (Ben) will make it short.

7.2.      Boy/Girl Scout DM: (Johnson) Please send article to BCS newsletter.

8.      Meeting adjournment (11:10 am)